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Aug 25, 2021, 5 tweets

US Vice President Kamala Harris and Vietnam's Vice President Vo Thi Anh Xuan meet in the Gold Room of the Presidential Palace in Hanoi.

The visit is the first to Vietnam by a sitting US vice president

Vice President Kamala Harris visits Vietnam to stress US commitment to Asia.

Critics slam the trip as tone-deaf given the parallels with the superpower's evacuations from Saigon and Kabul

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On the third anniversary of the death of Senator John McCain, US Vice President Kamala Harris lays flowers at a memorial in Hanoi to the former Vietnam POW where his Navy aircraft was shot down by the North Vietnamese

#UPDATE Vice President #KamalaHarris said Wednesday the US would find new ways to "raise the pressure on Beijing", accusing China of bullying in hotly disputed Asian waters for the second time in two days as she began a visit to #Vietnam u.afp.com/UrC9

VIDEO: 🇺🇸🇨🇳🇻🇳 Vice President #KamalaHarris says the US "needs to find ways to raise the pressure on Beijing" to abide by the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea, accusing China of "bullying" in the hotly disputed South China Sea as she began a visit to #Vietnam

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